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"Folkloresque introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture. Folkloresque describes the phenomenon were folklore is vaguely referenced for its power to connect beyond a product--tropes in the domain of popular culture that deploy folkloristic themes but outside academic folklore."-- "This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the "folkloresque." With "folkloresque," Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that is grounded in the discourse and theory of the discipline.Fantasy fiction, comic books, anime, video games, literature, professional storytelling and comedy, and even popular science writing all commonly incorporate elements from tradition or draw on basic folklore genres to inform their structure. Through three primary modes--integration, portrayal, and parody--the collection offers a set of heuristic tools for analysis of how folklore is increasingly used in these commercial and mass-market contexts.The Folkloresque challenges disciplinary and genre boundaries; suggests productive new approaches for interpreting folklore, popular culture, literature, film, and contemporary media; and encourages a rethinking of traditional works and older interpretive paradigms. Contributors: Trevor J. Blank, Chad Buterbaugh, Bill Ellis, Tim Evans, Michael Dylan Foster, Carlea Holl-Jensen, Greg Kelley, Paul Manning, Daniel Peretti, Gregory Schrempp, Jeffrey A. Tolbert "--

Folklore in popular culture. --- Folklore. --- Popular culture. --- Folklore and the Internet. --- Folklore --- Folklore dans la culture populaire. --- Culture populaire. --- Folklore et Internet. --- Structural analysis. --- Analyse structurale.

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La légende populaire du Juif Errant est l'histoire merveilleuse d'un cordonnier Juif condamné par le Christ à errer jusqu'à la fin des temps, sans trêve ni repos. Il a commis une faute au moment de la Passion ; quand le Christ, chancelant sous le poids de sa croix, voulut se reposer en s'appuyant sur l'étalage de son échoppe, Ahasvérus (ou Isaac) le repoussa sans ménagement. Maudit par le Christ, depuis lors il parcourt le monde en racontant son histoire... Seule la légende populaire du Juif Errant est ici étudiée : rien donc sur les romans et les essais qu'elle a suscités au XIXe siècle. Dans ce cadre, volontairement restreint, l'auteur retrace l'histoire, à plus d'un titre exemplaire, d'une légende chrétienne, en mettant l'accent sur ses vecteurs successifs : chroniques, récits de pèlerins ou d'imposteurs, puis livrets de colportage, complaintes, images populaires, feuilles volantes... L'incessante réécriture de l'histoire du personnage légendaire (tour à tour Jean Boutedieu, Ahasvérus, Isaac Laquedem ou Boudedeo) a fourni un angle d'attaque pour étudier l'évolution du folklore chrétien des maudits, et donc, du moins en partie, le folklore de la Passion. Plus largement, ce sont des enjeux fondamentaux du christianisme que met en évidence cette légende : relations avec le judaïsme et les Juifs, image du Christ (Dieu vengeur ou Dieu de pardon ?). C'est donc à une véritable quête dans la culture religieuse du Moyen Âge, puis dans la littérature de colportage et enfin dans la culture populaire traditionnelle qu'invite cet ouvrage.

Wandering Jew --- Moyen Âge --- culture populaire --- religion chrétienne --- histoire culturelle --- tradition --- minorité

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A despeito da erudição implícita da sua ‘Prefação’, os Contos Populares Portugueses de Adolfo Coelho apresentam-se talvez, a um olhar desprevenido, com débil aparência. Como ele próprio assinala, «em regra, pode considerar-se a tradição dos contos entre nós como assaz obliterada; falta-lhes vida, poesia, muitas feições significativas em versões doutros países tornaram-se aqui ininteligíveis e só pela comparação se explicam. A sua forma em geral é seca, monótona, enumerativa...» . Donde vem, pois, para lá de um tal juízo, a importância fundamental desta obra, diria mesmo o seu fascínio imperecível? Para respondermos à pergunta assim formulada, teremos de situar estes Contos não só na relação que apresenta com a obra global do seu Autor, como expressão da ciência da sua época e dos objectivos essenciais do seu labor de pioneiro, mas mesmo numa perspectiva geral da cultura literária portuguesa. E é isso que tentamos fazer nas linhas que seguem.

Anthropology --- Portugal --- cultura popular --- tradição oral --- contos --- culture populaire --- tradition orale --- contes

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Social sciences --- Social psychology --- Popular culture --- Sciences sociales --- Psychologie sociale --- Culture populaire

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Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture enables the dead to be consumed by the living on a mass global scale, actively engaging them with issues of mortality. This book develops the sociological intersectionality between death, the dead and popular culture by examining the agency of the dead. Drawing upon the posthumous careers of the celebrity dead and organ transplantation mythology in popular culture the dead are shown to not be hampered by death but to benefit from the symbolic and economic value they can generate. Meanwhile the fictional dead - the Undead and the dead in crime drama - are conceptualised through morbid sensibility and morbid space to mobilise consumer consideration of mortality and even challenge the public wisdom that contemporary Western society is in death denial and that death is taboo. Death and the dead, within the parameters of popular culture, form a palatable and normative bridge between viewers and mortality, iterating the innate value and hidden depths of popular culture in the study of contemporary society. This book will be of interest to anybody who researches death, popular culture and questions of mortality.

Death. --- Death --- Death in popular culture. --- Social aspects. --- Mort. --- Mort --- Mort dans la culture populaire. --- Aspect social.